Installation

Set up

Download the C3 compiler or the debug build and unzip the contents into an empty folder.

Requirement

If you have Visual Studio 17 installed, you can skip ahead to step 5. If you don’t have Visual Studio 17 installed keep on reading.

Python script

There should be a msvc_build_libraries.py Python script in the folder where you unzipped the C3 compiler (called c3c). This script will download the necessary files for compilation on Windows. Python can be installed from the official website or the Microsoft Store.

Moving the folder

Move the folder to C:\Program Files and navigate into it. Now copy the path to the folder.

Adding a Directory to PATH

Use the Windows search to find Environment properties. You should now see a menu titled System Properties. Head to the Advanced tab, where on the bottom right you will find Environment Variables.... Under User variables double click on PATH. Click on New and paste the folder path to the C3 compiler. For a tutorial with images click here.

Congratulations

You should now be able to access the C3 compiler from anywhere on your system. Try running the following command in the terminal to check if the installation was successful.

c3c --version

Requirement

In order to follow the tutorial, you must have XCode with command line tools installed.

Set up

Download the C3 compiler or the debug build and unzip the contents into an empty folder.

Check your shell

Check, which shell you are running by using this command in your terminal.

ps -p $$ -o comm=

If the output is zsh you can simply go to the next step. If the output is bash go to step 3 in the Ubuntu/Debian install instructions.

Adding a Directory to PATH

Copy the path to the folder into which you placed the C3 compiler (called c3c). Then open the .zshrc file by using this command in the terminal.

nano ~/.zshrc

Using the arrow keys navigate to the bottom of the .zshrc file and paste the following line by pressing Command + Shift + V.

export PATH="/path/to/your/folder:$PATH"

You must now replace /path/to/your/folder with the path you copied at the beginning of this step. Once you have done this press Control + O then press Enter then Control + X.

Sourcing

Now just execute this command in order for zshell to reload its configuration file.

source ~/.zshrc

Congratulations

You should now be able to access the C3 compiler from anywhere on your system. Try running the following command in the terminal to check if the installation was successful.

c3c --version

Set up

Ubuntu: Download the C3 compiler (Ubuntu) or the debug build (Ubuntu) and unzip the contents into an empty folder.

Debian: Download the C3 compiler (Debian) or the debug build (Debian) and unzip the contents into an empty folder.

Check your shell

Check, which shell you are running by using this command in your terminal.

ps -p $$ -o comm=

If the output is bash you can simply go to the next step. If the output is zsh go to step 4 in the MacOS install instructions.

Adding a Directory to PATH

Copy the path to the folder into which you placed the C3 compiler (called c3c). Then open the .bashrc file by using this command in your terminal.

nano ~/.bashrc

Using the arrow keys navigate to the bottom of the .bashrc file and paste the following line by pressing Command + Shift + V.

export PATH="/path/to/your/folder:$PATH"

You must now replace /path/to/your/folder with the path you copied at the beginning of this step. Once you have done this press Control + O then press Enter then Control + X.

Sourcing

Now just execute this command in order for bash to reload the configuration file.

source ~/.bashrc

Congratulations

You should now be able to access the C3 compiler from anywhere on your system. Try running the following command in the terminal to check if the installation was successful.

c3c --version

Installing via AUR

There are multiple packages available for C3 in the AUR with the most recent one being: c3c-bin-latest. The following command should download the package.

# For yay
yay -S c3c-bin-latest
# For paru
paru -S c3c-bin-latest
# For aura
aura -A c3c-bin-latest

Installing via Cloning

Run these commands to clone the AUR package manually.

git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c3c-git
cd c3c-git
makepkg -si

Congratulations

You should now be able to access the C3 compiler from anywhere on your system. Try running the following command in the terminal to check if the installation was successful.

c3c --version